Salt Lake evening Democrat. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1885-1887, 1887-01-18
OGDEN POLITICS.
A Few Lines Upon the Present and
Future workings.


Ed. DEMOCRAT: The Ogden Church
paper, echoing the deep growls of the
bass fiddle OF the Lord in Salt Lake City,
is going for the Liberals in a terrific
tune of vile insinuations. The Herald
insinuates that the Liberals, if ever
placed, put or risen to power, would rob
the taxpayers, deplete the public treas
ury, and enrich themselves individu-
ally out Of the common Golfers OF
the people, Now, letting alone
the undenable fact that the
Liberals, L. E. the non-Mormons, are pay
ing at least one-half of the taxes, and
hence would not be very likely to rob
themselves or their own friends, it may
be asked: "Have the rulers and tools
OF the Peoples party ever, always and
undeviatingly, acted on the square with
the public affairs and dealt fairly and
honestly with the public funds in their
trust?"
Echo answers Crust" You may be
sure the sword OF justice in the hands Of
the Mormon manipulators and magnates
has by no means remained u
FURNISHED and bright excalibur,
but has become eaten full of holes and
blemishes by the rust OF maladministra-
ton, family favoritism, private plumber,
clanish pilfering, preference to caste and
class, etc.
This has been, we may not want to say
the exclusive rule, but surely the ruling
disposition from presidents of stakes
down to deacons OF wards, be it in eccles
iastical or civil powers and places. 1t
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following-out Of that system which hides
its wholesale fraud and individual robbery
under the hypocritical euphemistic phrase
Of, "The earth is the Lords and the full
ness thereof" the same as the ancient
Greeks, to propitiate the aquatic deities,
called the savage and forbidding Black
sea the "Pontos EuXeinos spitable
sea.
| am just reminded of one case in illus
tration Of this idea. In 1884, the Liberals
and apostates in Wilson school precinct
sucdeeded in wrestling the management
and control OF the school from the
priestcraft who had run it in very
peculiar ways, in such ways as not
infrequently to arouse even the
patient and long-suffering forbear-
ance of the county superintendent.
When the Liberal trustees commenced to
try and look into "the ways that are
dark and tricks that are vain" practiced
$50 it then appeared) by some of their
sanity predecessors, there could not be
found a scrap OF record, book of entry
of any receipts and disbursements. One
of the defeated and departing trustees
acknowledged having received funds for
the carrying-on of the public district
schools and also having disbursed
various amount, but was unable to ac-
count as to the "Who? What? Where?
with what means? Why, how, or
when" Finally some sort OF a mOdus
ciCendi was arranged between the out
going illiberal and the incoming Liberal
trustees, and after six weeks of figuring,
fussing, fillibustering, fooling, ETC., sort
OF financial statement was rendered and
allowed to be accepted as some make
shift kind OF settlement.
Now the Liberal trustees who were
ousted last August would Just like to
challenge their Mormon predecessors
and successors to show how they com
pare, in being prepared to show cent by
cent, dollar by dollar, what moneys
were received for school purposes, by
whom and when; and then to show
when, where and what for, such means
were expended. We are afraid the an
ointed minions OF the Bishopric prefer
not to enter into details or take part in
such joust. The Liberal trustees left
a clear record with clean hands. Your
readers may suggest the antithesis to
this as applicable to the other side
This, Mr., Editor, is only one of almost
innumerable, but not-to-be-forgotten in
stances of how the Peoples party has
been running matters and things public
JUNIUs JUNIOR
OGDEN, Jan, IS, 1887.